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mental wellbeing. These gender differences are more pronounced in lower-income families. Our results are consistent with …
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Using detailed data from a unique survey of high school graduates in Germany, we document a gender gap in expected full …
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This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps … council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide evidence for a gender recontest gap among both incumbent and non …
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This paper presents a novel model of promotion within the firm which sheds new light on the interplay between working hours and the odds of subsequent promotion. The model's key feature is the coexistence of two different sources of asymmetric information: (i) the worker's cost of long working...
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Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …
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Selection correction methods usually make assumptions about selection itself. In the case of gender wage gap estimation …
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Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of … teenagers (15-19), the conditional gender gap becomes significant and sizeable for the over-20. The Juhn, Murphy and Pierce …
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is a gender difference in the reference point, explaining the gender difference in risk aversion observed using … average have a significantly lower reference point. By acknowledging the reference point as a potential source of gender …
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This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …
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better than boys. We provide the first causal evidence on how gender differences in sleep cycles can help explain the gender … estimates explain up to 16% of the gender performance gap …
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